Method of producing imitation press-copied letters



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S. HALL. METHOD OF PRODUCING IMITATION PRESSCOPIBD LETTERS; I

- N0."423,558. Patented Mar. 18, 1890.-

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To all whom it may concern.-

SAMUEL HALL, OF EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY.

'METHOD OF PRODUCING IIMIQTATION PRESS-COPIED LETTERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N'o 423,558, dated March 18, 1 890.

Application filed April 13, 1889.? Serial No. 307,170. (No specimens.)

Be it known that I, SAMUEL HALL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of East Orange, in the county of Essexand State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improved Methods of Producing Imi tation Press-Copied Letters, of which the following is a Specification.

My invention relates to a new and useful method of producing circulars, circular-letters, and similar printed matter, whereby they shall have the appearance of having been letter-press copied, thus giving them more consequence in the eyes of the person by whom they may be received and inducing him. to read the same. 7

In practicing my method it will be apparent that the printed matter maybe produced upon the original in such manner as preferred. The methods most favored by me are printing the same on an ordinary press in typewriter type or by a plate in imitation of han dwriting. 7

I prefer that my process should be practiced by the employment of an endless and continuously-moving web of cloth, and in order that the ink taken off upon the cloth may be removed from it, so that the original printed matter maynotbe smutched or overprinted by impressions taken from the cloth, I prefer to practice my invention by employ- .ing' an apparatus devised by me and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 illustrates a vertical section, and Fig. 2 illustrates a top view.

A is a frame supported on a base-B.

O C are two watertight tanks.

D D, are bars or rollers placedin the tanks below the surface of the'liquid therein, respectively, under which the web of cloth, hereinafter described, passes, thus securing the submersion of the weband causing it to move through the requisite quantity of the liquids to accomplish the objects sought.

E is a roller supported. on a part of the frame A.

p F F F F are pairs of squeezing-rollers journaled in suitable supports G G which are preferably supplied with adjusting screws H H, whereby the rollers may be adjusted instead of the crank.

L is a frame provided at its upper part with i a roller M, and hinged or pivoted at the bottom at N to the base B, and havingset-screws O threaded through a suitable part of the If desired, a pulley for the employment of power may be used frame L, which bears against the frame A, as

shown.

P is an endless web, of cloth or other suit able material, which passes over, under, and around the several rollers and between the compression or squeezing rollers, as shown, and the slack of this endless belt is taken up as it wears, or its tightness may be regulated by throwing the .frame L outwardly from the frame A by means of the set-screw 0. will tighten the web.

The operation is as follows: The tank 0' contains a solution of chloride of lime or other equivalent bleaching material. The tank 0 contains Water, which may be treated chem- This ically, if preferred, to more effectually remove or neutralize the bleaching solution. The

' crank K being turned, the endless web starts,

coming wet from the tank 0, and the printed sheets are passed in succession and face downward upon the wet surface of the web in between the rollers I' and I, and thus an imprint is taken on the web from the ink on the paper. The sheets may remain on the Web until they drop off at the roller M. The web passes continuously under the bar or roller D, through the bleaching-liquid,where the ink is destroyed, and thence passes between the squeezing-rollers F F, which squeeze out the excess of the bleaching-liquid. Thence the web passes up over the bar or roller E, thence under the bar D and through the water in the tank 0, where the bleaching-liquid is washed out from the web thence between the squeezin -rollers F F which ress out the excess a 4 of water, and by means of which the dampness of the web for further press-copyin g the sheets can be regulated. The web then passes direct to the rollers-'1 and I. Thus the circuit of the web is completed, it returning again for further use freed from the ink deposited by the sheets previously acted upon. r

The rollers may be made of such material and may beshaped on their surface so as to properly guide the web as may be deemed most desirable.

I do not herein claim the apparatus shown and described; but- I do not abandon the same, since I intend to make that the subject of an application for a patent to be filed by me before the, allowance of this present applicatio I claim-- 1.. The. process described, consisting in first printing the original sheets, then placing their printed surfaces. in contactwith amoist material and passing both together between compression-rollers, then removing the ink- April, A, n. 1889.

impression received by the moist material before it is again brought in contact with the printed matter, substantially-as and for th purposes set forth.

2. The process described, consisting in first pressing out the excess of water, substantially asset forth.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State, of, New York, this 8th day of SAMUEL HALL.

WTitnesses:

PHIL I ABBOT FREDERICK SMITH. 

